DETROIT - A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record.

Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, plans to travel to Europe with her troop with the proceeds from her feat.

"It's always been one of those goals I wanted to accomplish," Sharpe said Wednesday.

The two bakeries that make the cookies said Sharpe sold more than anyone this year, according to Dianne Thomas, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of Metro Detroit.

Michelle Tompkins, spokeswoman for the New York-based national organization, called the figure "amazing" but said there's no national record on the books.

"We're thrilled for the girls who take it to such a great level, but so far, we don't track it at the national level," she said.

Sharpe sold cookies every day on a street corner with help from her mother and troop leader, Pam Sharpe.

"We were always there; we never closed," Pam Sharpe said. "At one point, Jenny got really sick and we did shut down early, and we heard about it the next day."

Jennifer Sharpe's Troop 813 raised about $21,000 in cookie sales, paying for its 10-day trip to Europe this winter. Troops get only part of the proceeds from their members' sales.

The cookie program has helped push Jennifer out of her shell, Pam Sharpe said.

"It's made her really confident," she said. "I remember when she first started selling, she was very shy and quiet and you had to push her out to talk to customers, but now she's right out there, first to the door."

One thing that hasn't changed, despite selling thousands of boxes for the past few years, is Jennifer Sharpe's feelings about the cookies.

"I love them," she said.

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Thin Mints please...

I love those Girl Scout cookies...The thin mints, I put in the freezer and then scoff them up..This girl really put her heart and soul into selling them

Peanut Butter!!!!! I freeze mine too, I also freeze Hershey Bars.

sendsome over to england prease

Thats cool, good for her Those cookies are good!

Chocolate is meant to be frozen, lasts longer in the mouth...My freezer looks like Willy Wonka when girl scout cookie time comes around

im sure rosie o'donnell had a big hand in helping eat all those cookies

I wonder which ones grew hair on her chest...

How long until Wal-mart tries to buy up that street corner, get cheaply made cookies from china, and runs that little entrepreneur out of town?


(thin mints ROCK!)

Thin mints Rock. None of England. It is an American you wouldn't underdtand CL

A few more boxes and she can help her family afford a full tank of gas!!

Yes!! The peanut butter ones are to die for.... I wait impatiently every year for them to start selling..... Mmmmmm

Oh yeah! I love the peanut butter cookies too. Actually I like all of them...yummm.

I'm jealous.

What are those ones with the caramel and chocolate and coconut? Man! This thread is making me hungry!

Wow she'll make a good sales person.

*Speechless at how many boxes were sold*


*chomps on thin mints*

LMAO

Mmmmm Thin Mints!

I thought it was illegal for a young woman to sell her cookies on a street corner........

Mmmmmm Girlscout cookies.....(drool)........ I really likes them when they are made from 100% girl scouts.